Topstep eval · NQ / ES
A Topstep eval helper that keeps you inside trailing drawdown.
Most evaluations don't fail on bad setups — they fail on one oversized day, an unchecked trailing drawdown, or stacking trades during news. First Floor Trading is built around the rules Topstep actually enforces, so the combine becomes a discipline problem instead of a chart problem.
The drawdown line is recalculated every fill and pinned to the desk. When headroom drops below your buffer, the engine auto-disarms and alerts.
Eval accounts get a hard daily-loss cutoff. Cross it and the platform flattens and disarms for the trading day, with the reset timer pinned to the 6PM ET open.
Per-day P&L distribution is tracked against Topstep's consistency rule so one big day can't disqualify the payout. Surfaces a red flag the moment a day skews too high.
ENTER fires only when ICT structure, order flow, and the session filter align. Inside eval, the threshold is raised to keep trade count low and quality high.
Eval mode vs funded mode
One toggle switches the engine between Eval and Funded behavior. Eval mode raises the signal floor, enables daily profit auto-stop to match consistency rules, and tightens correlation blocks across the NQ/MNQ and ES/MES symbol family. Funded mode unlocks full sizing tiers and the payout-progress panel.
Pair it with the rest of the overlay
The eval helper rides on top of the same ICT trading overlay and futures order-flow software the live desk uses. Same chart, same signals — eval-specific guardrails added on top.
Comparing platforms first? See TopstepX vs Tradovate and TopstepX vs NinjaTrader.
Decision-support instrument. Not financial advice. Futures trading involves substantial risk of loss. First Floor Trading is not affiliated with Topstep, Tradovate, or NinjaTrader.